“I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.” *

In 2012 he launched the daily “Right Here, Right Now” radio show, which he hosted till early 2015, heard on approximately 270 AM & FM stationsacross the U.S., as well as on Sirius Satellite Radio (channel 130), and globally via shortwave. From 2007-2012 Patrick hosted the Thursday edition of EWTN Radio’s “Open Line” broadcast.

Patrick also hosted several EWTN television series, including “Pope Fiction,” “Search & Rescue,” and “Where Is That In the Bible?” Patrick is a frequent guest and occasional guest-host on the “Catholic Answers Live” program.

He has authored or edited 22 books on Catholic themes including, Why Be Catholic? Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That? and Envoy for Christ: 25 Years as a Catholic Apologistand the multi-volume Surprised by Truth series. His total book sales exceed a million copies worldwide, including foreign-language editions.

Over the past 27 years, Patrick has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.

He worked at Catholic Answers for eight years (1988 to 1996), where he served as vice president and helped launch that apostolate’s flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990. During his time at Catholic Answers, he co-authored the booklet Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth, tens of millions of copies of which have been printed (in English, Spanish, Arabic, German, French, Tagalog, and other languages) and distributed around the world.

Patrick is a life-long Catholic, not a convert. By God’s grace, he was raised in the Catholic Faith and has been a practicing Catholic his entire life. Growing up in Southern California, he attended grammar school at theMission San Juan Capistrano parish school, where for several years he served as an altar boy for the parish’s daily Traditional Latin Mass in the famed Serra Chapel.

Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Phoenix, as well as a B.Phil. in philosophy and an M.A. in dogmatic theology from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.

For the past 27 years, Patrick has conducted countless teaching seminars on Catholic themes, in English and Spanish, at conferences, parishes, and universities across North America, as well as throughout Europe, and in Latin America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. He has been for many years a regular presenter at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s annual “Defending the Faith” Conference and has been the featured speaker at numerous Legatusevents across the country. He is also a veteran of a dozen formal, public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.

Cardinal Edward Egan, the Archbishop Emeritus of New York, commented publicly on the effectiveness of Patrick’s approach to apologetics saying, “How do you bring a friend or relative back into the Church? First, you pray. Then, you follow Patrick Madrid’s advice in [his book] Search and Rescue.”

Patrick and his wife Nancy have been married for 34 years and have been blessed with 11 children and 16 grandchildren (so far). Their most important goal as a couple is to hear the Lord Jesus say to them and their children one day, “Well done, good and faithful servants; you have been faithful over a little . . . now enter into the joy of your Master” (Matt. 25:21).

* — St. Patrick of Ireland

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